Book Title: Jain Penance
Author(s): Champat Rai Jain
Publisher: The Indian Press Allahabad

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________________ TYPES OF HEN go to impart strength of vill to him. The physically meik should be asked to do only thint kind of pennace which will keep up his strength. He who is lacking in bodily strength as well as in firmness of mind should be giren men milde forms of penance than the last-named The man endorsed with any of the Inst three types of bony formaton (see the Practical Dharmn), with bodily strength and much trisdom should be giren all forms of tapa-penance-fu-ting and the like; but he should be given the mūla in place of the parināra penance (if such be merited by hum). The sarva-purna is fit to be giren all fornis of penances. If lie han, bowever, merited the paianchika form, he should be given only the anupasthāna (panthāja) Eren the anupasthāna penance he keeps in his own community (sangha) of saints and has not to be sent away to another community. The wise yoga who is endowed with the learn. ing comprised in nice purvas (departments of scriptumal lore), imbued with faith, devoid of the sense of attachment and aversion for the worldly things, contented, not given to preaching, and filled with pure thoughts, -may be given the anupasthāna (expulsion) penance The saint undergoing such a penance is, hoverer, allowed to approach the leader of the gana (community of saints) for asking him

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